Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020

[Swansong]

Imagine that. A dishonest, disingenuous article from a source not exactly known for embracing science (or logic, or reason).

What if this other thing that has nothing to do with the current thing happened? What then? huh?

[ScoobyDoo]

What a completely ****ed up and illogical comparison. What if our overlords reacted to a shotgun the same way they react to an AK47?

Oh, wait..................

[rufus]

Nice strawman, Chuckles.

Keep up the ****ty work.

[Handyman]

Everything He Says Is False

WASHINGTON — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has grown increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump, pushed by a new member of his coronavirus task force, is sharing incorrect information about the pandemic with the public.

Dr. Robert Redfield, who leads the CDC, suggested in a conversation with a colleague Friday that Dr. Scott Atlas is arming Trump with misleading data about a range of issues, including questioning the efficacy of masks, whether young people are susceptible to the virus and the potential benefits of herd immunity.

"Everything he says is false," Redfield said during a phone call made in public on a commercial airline and overheard by NBC News.

Redfield acknowledged after the flight from Atlanta to Washington that he was speaking about Atlas, a neuroradiologist with no background in infectious diseases or public health. Atlas was brought on to the White House task force in August.

[Handyman]

VP Pence is saying the cases are gonna rise in the coming days...while Trump (and his cronies) are telling us at the exact same time things are getting better. I am confused...

[hockeyfan77]

I have my first neurology appointment this week and hope to learn something

Good Luck, hope everything turns out well!

[Kepler]

I have my first neurology appointment this week and hope to learn something

Good luck and all my best wishes.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I’m on day 19 of a low grade fever and still have the leg tingles/parasthesias.

but everyone should get it, it’s harmless for healthy people right

[Handyman]

Well just think thanks to you we are one person closer to Herd Mentality!

[Chuck Murray]

VP Pence is saying the cases are gonna rise in the coming days...while Trump (and his cronies) are telling us at the exact same time things are getting better. I am confused...

It's really not that complicated. Follow along slowly - take your time:

There is more testing; hence, there are more positive test outcomes (i.e. cases). Case-demic.

However, total hospitalizations AND deaths have been steadily going down for quite awhile now.

It's all in the data. I thought you guys believed science? Yet scientific data is to be ignored??

Jeb has been beating you guys upside the head for weeks now on this very simple difference.

No wonder why you're confused ...

[Handyman]

https://mobile.twitter.com/neeratand...09519589675009

The WH put pressure on the CDC to downplay the risks about kids going back to school...

[Slap Shot]

The ol' "more testing" defense. So predictable, so misleading, so myopic. Meanwhile...

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1310853094889132037?s=20

CNN @CNN · 50m
Olivia Troye, a former adviser on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, recounts her "nightmare to tell," saying there was an organized effort to seek data to underplay the danger of coronavirus for certain populations, ages and demographics. https://cnn.it/2GbSdOC

[rufus]

Ummmmmmm, young white people?

[Drew S.]

It's really not that complicated. Follow along slowly - take your time:

There is more testing; hence, there are more positive test outcomes (i.e. cases). Case-demic.

However, total hospitalizations AND deaths have been steadily going down for quite awhile now.

It's all in the data. I thought you guys believed science? Yet scientific data is to be ignored??

Jeb has been beating you guys upside the head for weeks now on this very simple difference.

No wonder why you're confused ...

Hospitalizations in Mass up 25% in the last couple weeks. From what I’ve read the human body is better able to fight off sickness in warmer weather and as it starts to get colder don’t think we will be so fortunate as we have been over the summer.

[Swansong]

Hospitalizations in Mass up 25% in the last couple weeks. From what I’ve read the human body is better able to fight off sickness in warmer weather and as it starts to get colder don’t think we will be so fortunate as we have been over the summer.

That isn't the case at all. http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/20...kes-in-winter/

That's a decent primer, but specific to influenza (there are other theories, like in colder, drier air your mucus has a different viscosity that could be more or less "welcoming" to influenza, and allows it to easier penetrate you). Since COVID is still a novel virus we simply don't know if that is true. Some human coronaviruses are seasonal (although the jury is out as to whether that's simply related to human behavior or actual, biological factors). But the two viruses COVID is closest to - SARS And MERS - do not seem to be seasonal.